[PatBuckley]

I never took advice from my 3 year old because he didn't have as much experience as I did.

I did ask my 5 year old if I should invest in IBM back in the 70's and he said that I should.

There were times when I was racing that I hated it but I knew that is was what I wanted to do so I took the bad with the good. I remember lying in bed one night crying. Literally. I was 25 year old guy who wanted to win so bad that I was doing whatever it took to win - that meant working on the car every night (after working a 10 hour day) until 1 or 2 AM. After a while you get exhausted - but I knew that if I didn't prepare the car I coiuldn't expect to win. So I did it.

When I was a little kid I dreamed of being a racing driver. Somehow that dream (all I had to do was show up, get in a perfectly prepared car and win every race with no DNF's, no late night slaving on the car, no cuts, no grease, no heartache, no marital issues, free time to enjoy the adulation) didn't pan out the way I thought it would. Of course having a wife, two kids, and a job that didn't pay a whole lot didn't make it any easier.

Racing is a pain in the ass. Sometimes it seemed that everything that could go wrong, did.

But is was worth it. Now I look back and realize that generally speaking, most dreams that are hard to achieve are worth it - if it was easy everyone would do it.

Perhaps owning a Cobra is similar?

Maybe I should go to the SCCA Forum and tell all those racers that what they are doing isn't worth it.